# MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
## Chapter Twenty One — *What The Elder Wants*
The Elder was still in the small room off the main building where Rhen's guards had put him after the session.
Not a cell.
Not a holding room exactly.
Just a room with a chair and a table and two guards outside the door and a window that looked at the mountain and let in the same sunlight that had been warm on Mara's face thirty seconds ago.
He was sitting at the table when they came in.
Hands folded.
Patient.
Like a man who had been waiting and had decided a long time ago that waiting was something he was good at.
He looked at the three of them in the doorway.
At Caius on her left.
At Zane on her right.
At Mara in the middle where she always was.
"Together," he said. "Of course."
"You asked for me," Mar
